and now we just have ai to read for people, even fewer opportunities to build those literacy skills

i almost put both little miss sunshine and inside out on my list! both extremely excellent!

i have been very resistant to watching lady bird, probably on account of my own mother issues. i should watch; you know i love your recs.

and somehow, i do think i’ve become—for him—a pretty good parent

there was a stretch of time where that didn’t seem possible, but he’s such a good kid, and actively loving him does make me a better person. but i hate that kind of rhetoric, so i don’t think that experience is exclusive to parenting. this is just how it happened for me.

i don’t recommend my way of parenting but it really was the only way it could have worked for me given this problem you’ve cited here

they put some in me last year when i had to be zonked out for back surgery and though i have no memory of it, i think i probably enjoyed myself!!

still have my old account info and it is mortifying and delightful all at once. what an embarrassing, earnest dork ie once was.

i’ve got to say, watching the federal government work to destroy your profession—work pretty critical to society’s continued existence, i’d argue—while millions of your fellow citizens cheer its collapse is perhaps some of the most demoralizing shit i’ve ever experienced

not to play favorites but strip is truly one of the best

“it’s clear that you have a love for music, and you like to try new things.” excellent thesis, a++

why is this so frequently cited as THEE marker for true adulthood? i am a full grown up, i’d argue, but i haven’t hit this milestone quite yet…

i’m sure i’ve told you this but an evergreen professor’s feedback to my (admittedly not great) short story was that it was unbelievable because “mothers don’t just leave their daughters” 🤡